Crossword Puzzle The New York Times Magazine

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ACROSS

1 Lightheaded 6 Underwater

workplaces 13 One of four on the annual tennis calendar 18 Navel

formation?

19 Not renewed 21 1836 siege

setting 22 First name on the high bench 23 Follower of

deuce 24 Wordsmith Peter Mark ____ 25 Lot of back

and forth? 27 Alternative to

grass 29 Place for a prize ceremony 30 Nellie who wrote “Ten Days in a Mad-House” 31 Point of no

return? 34 Certain corp.

takeover 35 It’s meant to

be 36 NBC hit since

’75 37 Ingredient in a Dark ’n’ Stormy 38 Muslim holy

men

40 Designer inits.

42 “Awesome!”

43 Lead-in to line 44 Rod who was the 1977 A.L. M.V.P. 45 “Bridesmaids”

co-star 47 Food with an unfortunate-sounding last two syllables

50 Really fancy

51 Dreams up 55 Sophocles

tragedy 56 Get further

mileage from 57 Vegetable or

pasta, e.g. 58 Drip, drip, drip 59 Annual sporting event that is this puzzle’s theme 62 Outside:

Prefix

63 Really green

64 Stingy sort? 65 Many a presidential hopeful: Abbr. 66 Treasure-map

markers

68 Ostracize 69 Lead-in to boy

or girl 70 Standard info on stationery nowadays 72 U. of Md.

player

73 Spot 74 Conjunction in the Postal Service creed 76 The Eagles, on

scoreboards 78 Pérignon, for

one 79 “Nature is the ____ of God”: Dante 81 Something to

live for 83 Chaney of

silents 84 One at home,

informally

85 Ape

88 “Zip it!” 89 Things found

in clogs 90 Bourbon Street’s locale, informally

92 Frenzy 94 Stadium name near Citi Field 96 Spectators’

area 98 “Harlequin’s Carnival” painter 99 James ____, Belgian painter in the movement Les XX 100 Flowchart symbol 101 Saskatch

ewan native 102 It represents

you

104Old-timey 106First and last black key on a standard piano 108Gas type:

Abbr. 109Location of

59-Across

114 Fly-by-night? 115 Canapé

topper 116 Computer command 117 Time to vote:

Abbr. 118 Italian car,

informally 119 Lead-in to “Man,” “Woman” or “Fool” in Top 40 hits

120 Further 121 Part of

U.S.T.A.: Abbr. 122 City grid:

Abbr.

123 Enthusiasm

124 Lion or tiger

DOWN

1 Employs

2 Not for keeps 3 Low soccer score

4 Wittily insults 5 Number on a trophy

6 “Alas …”

7 One of a wellknown septet 8 Inits. in 2010 news 9 Broadway’s Cariou 10 Computer key 11 Utterly uninspiring 12 Oscarnominated George of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 13 Designer Jacobs 14 Emotionally detached 15 Jungle predator 16 Code you don’t want to break 17 Returned to earth?

19 “I can’t talk now” 20 Louisville

standout 26 Candidate for

rehab

28 Square dance maneuver 31 Oscar-winning film of 1984 32 Revel

33 College in

Boston 37 Whole host 38 “Why should

____?”

39 Win every game 41 Security

agreement 43 One way to answer a server? 46 Winning words 47 Guy

48 Dweller along

the Bering Sea 49 The “L” of L.C.D. 52 Genius Bar

employees 53 Relish 54 Rugged, as a

landscape 60 Impotent 61 Paradigm 64 Submerge 67 Cybertrash 71 Force (into) 72 When the diet

starts, perhaps 75 Locale for

Charlie Chan 77 Dating-profile

section 78 Denims 80 Purchases at

tire shops

81 Do well with 82 Fit to be tied 86 How the Quran

is written 87 Film-related anagram of AMERICAN 88 City in Iraq’s

Sunni Triangle 89 Clear the air? 91 “I’ll take that as

____” 93 Proficient in 95 Much TV fare during the wee hours

97 Towers over

103 Blue hue

105 Metal fastener 107 Three-person

card game

110 Vox V.I.P.s

111 Forever and a

day

112 Red Sox Hall-of

Famer, to fans 113 “Bravo!”